Many students might see an English course titled Hermit Crabs and Borrowed Forms and immediately wonder what crustaceans have to do with creative writing. But when Eliana Alzate ’26 saw that title, ...

Since structuralism in literary studies is largely of French origin, let this attempt to ruin its reputation have as its motto the words of a Frenchman, Pierre Bertaux: At one time it was hoped that ...

Such a statement requires not only justification but considerable elaboration. Written science fiction is, of course, literature, although science fiction in other media (films, drama, perhaps even ...

DePauw University’s commitment to arts and culture shines in the breadth and depth of our annual artistic production. Each year, more than 200 events, including theater, music, speaking engagements ...

The writers of pulp-magazine science fiction found themselves in an ambivalent position after the explosion over Hiroshima of the first atomic bomb. On the one hand, they were acknowledged as prophets ...

Discussions of the relationship between science fiction and myth usually begin to break down as soon as the question of basic definitions arises. There is little critical agreement as to the meaning ...

The DePauw University Archives and Special Collections serves as the repository of the United Methodist Church in Indiana. The guides below will help aid research on the history of the United ...

When Baudrillard writes that we live in an age of simulacra, he is not wrong. The phenomena he describes can be observed in corner video stores, supermarket aisles, and neighborhood gas stations as ...

Start the New Year in a magical way with our DePauw Alumni Community as we enjoy the beauty of Winterlights at Newfields. Get to know fellow Indianapolis alumni as you enjoy a conversation with Dan ...

A literature that is alive does not live by yesterday's clock, nor by today's, but by tomorrow's.--Yevgeny Zamyatin 1 In his recent critical biography of Zamyatin, Alex M. Shane writes that the ...

The study of various touchstones in the history of man's search for the ideal commonwealth affords valuable insight into ideas and ideals that profoundly influenced the utopian thought of Aldous ...

In the Afterword to "The Word for World is Forest" (WWF) Le Guin remarks that writing this story was "like taking dictation from a boss with ulcers. What I wanted to write about was the forest and the ...